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Medical residents are now under investigation for posting pictures of removed organs on Instagram as if they were game show hosts.
Developments

Doctors Investigated For Posting Surgically Removed Organs on Instagram

By Dan Robitzski

Plastic surgeon Scott Green signed into a courtroom Zoom proceeding to fight a traffic violation while he was operating on a patient.
Developments

Surgeon Contests Traffic Ticket While Operating on Patient

By Dan Robitzski

Doctors who perform surgery on their birthday seem to lose more patients than on any other day, according to a new study on emergency operations.
RX and Medicine

Surgeons Who Operate on Their Birthday Appear to Kill Way More Patients

By Dan Robitzski

Performing surgeries in space could end up being a pretty messy — and potentially dangerous — reality for astronauts on future missions to Mars.
Off-World

Scientists Ponder Gory Mayhem of Zero-Gravity Surgery

By Victor Tangermann

The Tokyo Women's Medical University started livestreaming surgery in virtual reality as a COVID-19 safety measure that may make education more accessible.
Developments

A Tokyo Hospital Is Livestreaming Surgeries in Virtual Reality

By Dan Robitzski

Orthopedic surgeons have begun offering leg lengthening — long offered as a corrective procedure for congenital defects — to insecure, short men.
Developments

Want to Be Taller? Radical Surgery Permanently Extends Your Legs.

By Dan Robitzski

More patients are getting so-called paramedical tattoos to mask their injuries or scars instead of expensive plastic surgery.
Medical

Paramedical Tattoos: Ink Artists’ Latest Innovation to Aid Body Trauma

By Dan Robitzski

A Dutch robot named MUSA has successfully performed supermicrosurgery on a human for the first time, which only a handful of doctors worldwide can do.
Health & Medicine

Meet MUSA, the Robot That Just Aced Supermicrosurgery for the First Time

By Foster Kamer

A team of scientists at the University of Maryland School of Medicine placed humans in "suspended animation" for the first time.
Developments

Scientists Place Humans in “Suspended Animation” for First Time

By Victor Tangermann

A team of surgeons from Charlotte, North Carolina have demonstrated new surgery robot technology by carving a jack-o-lantern and removing its seeds.
Robotics

Watch a Surgery Robot Operate on a Jack-o’-Lantern

By Victor Tangermann

As the technology becomes cheaper and more common, surgeons may find themselves routinely practicing for an operation with 3D-printed organs.
3D Printing

Prepping for Surgery With 3D-Printed Organs May Become Commonplace

By Dan Robitzski

In a medical first, doctors saved a stabbing victim's life by performing open-heart surgery in the street because he wouldn't have survived to the hospital.
Medical

Medical First: Doctor Performs Open Heart Surgery in the Street

By Dan Robitzski

Surgeons just used the first autonomous surgery robot, a self-guiding catheter that could navigate its way through a pig's heart.
Self-Driving Vehicles

Surgeons Just Sent a Tiny, Autonomous Bot Into a Heart Valve

By Dan Robitzski

Instead of cutting a person open, future surgeries could be done by shocking cartilage until it's malleable and reshaping it with molds.
Biology

New Technique Alters Your Facial Appearance Without Surgery

By Dan Robitzski

Vicarious Surgical plans to create tiny robots that doctors can control via virtual reality to operate on patients remotely.
Virtual Reality

Bill Gates Funds Tiny Robot Surgeons That Operate Inside the Body

By Kristin Houser

A new medical device could charge pacemakers using the kinetic energy of a person's heartbeat. If it works, it could eliminate costly and risky surgeries.
Devices

New Implant Powers Cyborg Devices Using Your Heartbeat

By Dan Robitzski

We need to improve robot surgeons' sense of touch before the machines can truly reach their potential, according to one surgeon.
Health & Medicine

Experts Want to Give Robot Surgeons a Sense of Touch

By Kristin Houser

A new report on the future of medical technology by the Royal College of Surgeons argues that many surgical procedures will soon become obsolete.
Health & Medicine

Experts: Stem Cells and Robots Will Replace Many Invasive Surgeries

By Dan Robitzski

The Digest: The World’s Smallest Surgical Robot Is Almost Ready for the Operating Room
Health & Medicine

The Digest: The World’s Smallest Surgical Robot Is Almost Ready for the Operating Room

By Kristin Houser

Penis Transplant Is Latest Surgery Helping People Feel Like Themselves
Medical

Penis Transplant Is Latest Surgery Helping People Feel Like Themselves

By Dan Robitzski

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Neuroscience and Brain

If You Had a Human Head Transplant, Would You Still Be You?

By Dom Galeon

Researchers Create Surgical Device That Can Identify Cancer Cells in Seconds
Cancer

Researchers Create Surgical Device That Can Identify Cancer Cells in Seconds

By Alexandra Ossola

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Robotics

For the First Time Ever, a Robot Performed an Operation Inside a Human Eye

By Dom Galeon

Scientists Transplanted A Rat’s Head Onto Another Rat, Hoping to Replicate It in Humans
Science & Energy

Scientists Transplanted A Rat’s Head Onto Another Rat, Hoping to Replicate It in Humans

By Dom Galeon

A Japanese Man Has Become the First Recipient of Donated, Reprogrammed Stem Cells
Health & Medicine

A Japanese Man Has Become the First Recipient of Donated, Reprogrammed Stem Cells

By Christianna Reedy

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3D Printing

3D-Printed Silicon Organs Are Helping Surgeons Save Lives

By Neil C. Bhavsar

Doctors Gave This Man a New Face
Prosthetics and Devices

Doctors Gave This Man a New Face

By Kathleen Riley

New Surgery Can Give the Legally Blind 20/20 Vision
Health & Medicine

New Surgery Can Give the Legally Blind 20/20 Vision

By Patrick Caughill

The Future of Surgery: Robo-Snakes that ‘Slither’ Down Your Throat
Artificial Intelligence

The Future of Surgery: Robo-Snakes that ‘Slither’ Down Your Throat

By Neil C. Bhavsar

Robots Could Be Performing a Third of U.S. Surgeries by 2021
Artificial Intelligence

Robots Could Be Performing a Third of U.S. Surgeries by 2021

By Andy Palma

FDA Approved Device Uses Ultrasound Instead of A Knife
Science & Energy

FDA Approved Device Uses Ultrasound Instead of A Knife

By Jelor Gallego

Stroke Survivor Walks Again After Doctors Inject Stem Cells Directly into Brain
Brain

Stroke Survivor Walks Again After Doctors Inject Stem Cells Directly into Brain

By Adeel Shaffi

The Final Word on Human Head Transplant Surgery: Will This Work?
Science & Energy

The Final Word on Human Head Transplant Surgery: Will This Work?

By Jolene Creighton

A 3D Printed Skull Just Saved a Child’s Life
3D Printing

A 3D Printed Skull Just Saved a Child’s Life

By June Javelosa

9-Month-Old Baby Saved by 3D Printed Heart Replica
3D Printing

9-Month-Old Baby Saved by 3D Printed Heart Replica

By June Javelosa

World First: Woman Has Tumour On Lung Removed By a Robot
Artificial Intelligence

World First: Woman Has Tumour On Lung Removed By a Robot

By June Javelosa

Medicine of the Future: Demonstration of the Universal Robotic Surgical System
Robotics

Medicine of the Future: Demonstration of the Universal Robotic Surgical System

By June Javelosa

This system uses augmented reality to help prepare surgeons for operations
Virtual Reality

This system uses augmented reality to help prepare surgeons for operations

By Pat Medina